Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

After accounting for Earth’s rotation, gravity is slightly weaker beneath Antarctica than anywhere else on the planet. That ...

GPS has become indispensable both for military operations and everyday American life. But our reliance on it makes us ...

The Sun would be a far more powerful telescope than any humanity could create in the near future. But to use it, we need to get to 650 AU.

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Researchers at Oxford University and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) are ...

Lasers, devices that emit intense beams of coherent light in specific directions, are widely used in research settings and are central components of various technologies, including optical clocks (i.e ...

On January 14, 2025, a pair of black holes with nearly identical masses crashed together roughly 1.2 billion light-years away, producing a gravitational wave signal so clean and powerful that it ...

Altuve will gain some positional stability that he didn't enjoy in 2025, when he hit for the lowest average of his 15-year career.

Webb telescope data confirm a supermassive black hole fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000 light-year wake of new stars.

The Thunder enters the NBA All-Star break as the No. 1 team in the West and the owners of the best point differential in ...

My work comes out of an anxious need to control time and space on a limited human scale, which is the scale of a painting, a ...